What WSJ Canada Is Reading Thursday

These are some of the stories we’re reading Thursday morning in Canada.

Canada-based IMAX is joining with China’s largest cinema chain to build as many as 120 new theaters in the country, dwarfing a deal that the company announced with a Korean partner last week.

BlackBerry has laid off 250 people at a product testing facility, according to a Canada’s CTV news report.

The polar ice cap is melting, and if executives at the Russian energy company Novatek feel guilty about profiting from that, they do not let it be known in public.

Money raised by an Islamic charity to help Canada’s poor and needy instead went overseas, potentially into the hands of violent militants, a government audit has found.

Hundreds of small mineral exploration companies may have their stock delisted by Canada’s TSX Venture Exchange in the coming months, choking off a development pipeline that has long supplied major miners with new projects.

And, the Associated Press reports that a 112-year-old self-taught musician, coal miner and gin rummy aficionado from western New York is the world’s oldest man. The Grand Island, New York, resident can probably see Canada from his house.

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